Professor Walter Vale is sleepwalking through his life. When his college sends him to Manhattan to attend a lecture, Walter is surprised to find illegal immigrants Tarek and Zainab living in his apartment. Victims of a real estate scam with nowhere else to go, Walter reluctantly allows them to stay.

Character actor Richard Jenkins takes center stage in this compelling character study: charting the awakening of a withdrawn and inchoate man upon his arrival to diverse, multicultural Manhattan. From Tom McCarthy (Spotlight), an understated yet profound profile of immigration in post-9/11 America.